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Full Name: Tarek Rashed
Postion:
  • Senior Scientist, Milcord LLC, USA
  • Former Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science ( GIS ), Department of Geography, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, University of Oklahoma, USA
  • Former Associated Director, Center for Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norma, OK, USA
Nationality: Egypt
Country of residence outside the Arab region: United States
Address: Tarek Rashed
Center for Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma,100 East Boyd Street, Sarkeys Energy Center 680
Norman, Ok 73019-1004,,USA
Work Tel: 1 405 3255104/1 405 3255325
Work Fax: 1 405 3256090
Geographical Coverage
Arab Countries
Fields of Application
Geography
Energy and Environment
Areas of Specialization
Remote Sensing
Urban Development/Cities
Cities Planning
Environmental Pollution
Models
Knowledge Management/Knowledge Sharing/Networking
Area of Expertise
Teaching (Academic)
Programme or/and Project Development
Publications
  • Remote sensing of urban and suburban areas, Tarek Rashed and Carsten Juergens (eds.), Vol.10 : Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing Series, Springer, May 2010, 300p.- Book - see link   
  • Geospatial campaign design for COIN civil affairs, presented at the GeoDesign Summit, ESRI, Redlands, California, USA, 6-8 January, 2010   
  • Assessing the utility of hyperion imagery for the automatic identification of urban construction materials, [2009]- In Progress   
  • Exploring the temporal lag between social processes and urban morphological patterns using remote sensing techniques, [2009]- In Progress   
  • How to estimate population growth? : a new answer to an old question, with A. Ali, [2009]- In Progress   
  • A Geospatial framework for measuring flood waste debris generation, with J. Kandeh, [2009]- In Progress   
  • Book Review to IJGISience : Mapping vulnerability to natural hazards, [2009]- In Progress   
  • Coupling multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis and fuzzy logic for the assessment of woody plant encroachment, with M. Buenemann, submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment, [2008]- In Review   
  • Spatial thinking issues : towards a rural sociological research agenda in the 3rd millennium, with A. Ali, submitted to Journal of Rural Studies, [2008]- In Review   
  • The Model of models : an Integrative conceptual model for the spectral analysis of urban imagery, with N. Dilekli, submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment, [2008]- In Review   
  • A GIS-based model for the analysis of genitourinary birth defects, with K. Rich, submitted to the American Journal of Epidemiology, [2008]- In Review   
  • Remote Sensing of urban and suburban areas, Tarek Rashed and C. Juergens (eds.), Series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, Vol. 10, Series Ed.: Meer, Freek D. van der. Springer, [2008]- In Press   
  • Remote sensing of within-class changes in urban neighborhood structures, In: Computer, Environment and Urban Systems, [2008]- Accepted, In Press   
  • Developing technology infrastructure for repository spectral libraries and quantitative remote sensing applications in Egypt : an Egyptian-American partnership in Remote Sensing (EARS), with Mahmoud Ahmed, invited presentation, NSF-USDA International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, Cairo, Egypt, 13-15 May, 2008   
  • GIS Strategy Plan for Oklahoma’s Capital Improvement Planning Program (GeoCIP), with N. Dilekli, K. Hines, A. Brodie and T. Tran-Vinh, Technical Report submitted to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, 2007   
  • An Integrative GIS and remote sensing model for place-based urban vulnerability analysis, with J. Weeks, H. Couclelis, and M. Herold, In: V. Mesev (ed.), Integration of GIS and remote sensing, Wiley, Chapter 9:199-231, 2007   
  • Geospatial technologies for sustainable risk management and environmental decision making : an R&D; Agenda from the University of Oklahoma, paper presented at The First International Symposium on Geoinformatics (GEOTUNIS 2007) organized by the Tunisian Society of GeoInformatics, Tunis, Tunisia, 15-17 November 2007   
  • Geospatial technologies and environmental decision making : the case of vulnerability and risk analysis, Invited lecture presented at the Workshop on " Decision-Making in Weather Impacted Disasters ", organized by Oklahoma Weather Survey at the University of Oklahoma, October 2007   
  • Measuring the immeasurable : vulnerability to natural hazards and the role of geospatial technologies and dynamic simulation models, Invited keynote presentation, the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Cairo University, Egypt, July 2007   
  • Urban remote sensing, Invited lecture, Institute of Graduate studies and Research, The University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt, Egypt, June 2007   
  • Spectral mixture analysis, Invited lecture presented at The Egyptian Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science, Cairo, Egypt, June 2007   
  • Spatial decision support systems, Invited lecture presented at The Egyptian Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science, Cairo, Egypt, June 2007   
  • Rapid environmental assessment with GIS and remote sensing, with Muhammed Rahman, paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ( ISCRAM 2007 ), Delft, the Netherlands, 13-16 May, 2007 and In: B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt, and C. Nieuwenhuis (eds.), 2007, pp.219-226   
  • Towards a GIS data model for improving the emergency response in the least developing countries : challenges and opportunities, with Naci Dilekli, paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ( ISCRAM 2007 ), Delft, the Netherlands, 13-16 May, 2007 and In: B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt, and C. Nieuwenhuis (eds.), 2007, pp.57-62   
  • The Model of models : an integrative conceptual model for the spectral analysis of urban imagery, paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, USA, April 2007   
  • Existing situation and needs assessment for migrating the ODWC DATA VIEWER to in-house internet map server, with K. Rich, Technical Report submitted to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, 2006   
  • In Their own words : utilizing weblogs in quick response research, with A.M. James, In: G. Guibert (ed.), Learning from catastrophe : quick response research in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Natural Hazards Center Press, University of Colorado, Boulder: 57-84, 2006   
  • Exploring the “Geographeries” of Cairo through the lens of geographic information technologies, Invited keynote presented at the Geography Awareness Week at Oklahoma Northeastern State University, November 2006   
  • Geospatial technologies for vulnerability and risk analysis, Invited lecture, Short Course on Decision-Making in Weather Impacted Disasters, organized by Oklahoma Weather Survey at the University of Oklahoma, October 2006   
  • In Memory of Gilbert White (1911-2006), Organizer and Panelist, Annual Meeting of the Southwestern division of the Association of American Geographers ( SWAAG ), October 2006   
  • Remote sensing for urban analysis : case studies from the Middle East, paper presented at the Conference on Geographic Information Technologies and the New Middle East Security, Florida State University, Miami, USA, 2006   
  • Remote sensing for urban social studies, paper presented to the Special Session on Remote Sensing and Social Applications, the ASPRS Annual Conference, Reno, May 2006   
  • A GIS-based model for quantifying the spatiotemporal dimensions of gestational pesticide exposure and their impacts on genitourinary birth defects : a case study of Harris County, Texas, with Katy M Rich and Jennifer D. Peck, paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, USA, March 2006   
  • Assessing the utility of hyperion imagery for the automatic identification of urban construction materials, paper presented at the 1st Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group Urban Remote Sensing on " Urban Remote Sensing : Challenges and Solutions ", Berlin Adlershof, Germany, 2-3 March 2006   
  • Sustainable mitigation of hydrometrorological disasters for cities in Afghanistan, Technical Report submitted to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2005   
  • Measuring temporal compositions of urban morphology through spectral mixture analysis : toward a soft approach to change analysis in crowded cities, with J. Weeks, D. Stow and D. Fugate, In: International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(4): 699-718, 2005   
  • Geospatial technologies, vulnerability assessment, and sustainable hazards mitigation in cities, In: M. Campagna (ed.), GIS for sustainable development : bringing geographic information science into practice towards sustainability, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, New York, 2005, pp.287-309   
  • Virtual Luxor : delivering the architectural heritage of Luxor City, Egypt, paper presented to the 1st Annual Meeting of Egyptian-American Scholars, organized by the Cultural and Educational Bureau, Washington DC, USA, November 2005   
  • Assessing vulnerability to disasters : using geographic information science and remote sensing tools, Invited lecture, Short Course on Decision-Making in Weather Impacted Disasters organized by Oklahoma Weather Survey at the University of Oklahoma, October 2005   
  • Digital cityscapes : geospatial technologies for urban and regional planning, paper presented to the Workshop on Urban Architecture and City Heritage, the University of Mansoura, Egypt, April 2005   
  • Extending HAZUS®-MH to assessing community vulnerability to multiple-hazards : a geospatial approach, paper presented to The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, USA, April 2005   
  • Quantifying the ecological patterns of urban densification through multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis, landscape metrics, and fuzzy logic, In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XXXV-B7:503-508, 2004   
  • The Fertility transition in Egypt : intra-urban patterns in Cairo, with John R. Weeks, Arthur Getis, Allan G. Hill and Saad Gadalla, In: The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(1):74-93, 2004   
  • Multiple spectral mixture analysis of ASTER imagery for Cairo, paper presented at the Workshop on Urban Environmental Modeling, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, April 2004   
  • Validation of satellite derived end-member fraction maps of Cairo, Egypt using quickbird imagery, with D. Stow, D. Fugate, J., Weeks, and A. Getis, presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, USA, March 2004   
  • Measuring the environmental context of urban vulnerability to earthquake hazards : an integrative remote sensing and GIS approach, UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University, 2003- Ph.D. Thesis   
  • Assessing social vulnerability to earhquake hazards through spatial multicriteria analysis of urban areas, with J. Weeks, In: International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 17(6):549-576, 2003   
  • Measuring the physical compositions of urban morphology using multiple endmember spectral mixture models, with J. Weeks, D. Roberts, J. Rogan and R. Powell, In: Photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing : special issue on applications of remote sensing and GIS to urban analysis, 69(9):1011-1020, 2003   
  • Exploring the spatial association between measures from satellite imagery and patterns of urban vulnerability to earthquake hazards, with J. Weeks, paper presented at the International Archives of the Photogrammerty Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (CD-ROM), Regensberg, Germany, 27-29 June, 2003, and In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. XXXIV-7/W9:144-152, 2003   
  • Assessing social vulnerability to earthquake hazards through spatial multicriteria analysis of urban areas, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 2002, and In: International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 17(6):549-576, 2003   
  • Report on the 4th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Regensburg, Germany from 27-29 June, 2003, In: ISPRS Highlights, 8(3):19-20, 2003   
  • Exploring the spatial association between vulnerability to earthquake hazards and measures from remote sensing and population census, with John Weeks, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003   
  • Contrast or continuum? the creation and application of an urban gradient index, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003   
  • Measuring temporal compositions of urban morphology through spectral mixture analysis : toward a soft approach to change analysis in crowded cities, with J. Weeks, D. Stow and D. Fugate, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Urban Remote Sensing, Istanbul, Turkey, 11-13 June 2002, Vol. 2: 512-527   
  • Conceptualizing the urban-rural continuum : the potential contribution of remotely-sensed imagery, with John R. Weeks, Dennis Larson and Douglas Stow, paper presented at the International Conference on Population Geographies, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 2002   
  • Analysing the ecological context of social vulnerability to urban earthquake hazards through spectral mixturemodeling of satellite images, with John R. Weeks, paper presented at the 22nd Annual Symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, Prague, the Czech Republic, May 2002   
  • Spatial patterns as predictors of fertility in Cairo, Egypt with John Weeks, Arthur Getis, Xiaoling Yang, Saad Gadalla and Allan Hill; part of paper session on "Emerging population issues", sponsored by the Population Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Wednesday, March 20, 2002   
  • Revealing the anatomy of cities through spectral mixture analysis of multispectral satellite imagery : a case study of the Greater Cairo region, Egypt, with J. Weeks, S. Gadalla and A. Hill, In: Geocarto International, 16(4):5-16, 2001   
  • Spectral mixture analysis of urban environmental attributes in Central Cairo, Egypt, with John Weeks, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, April 2001   
  • Applications of GIS to flood hazard assessment : a case study of rainfall-runoff modeling for Tijuana River Watershed (TRW) on the US-Mexican borders, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 2000- Post graduate diploma - M.A. Thesis   
  • Spatial variability in fertility in Menoufia, Egypt, assessed through the application of remote-sensing and GIS technologies, with J. Weeks, S. Gadalla, J. Stanforth and A. Hill, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, March 1999 and In: Environment and Planning A, 32(4): 695-714, 2000   
  • Remote sensing analysis of urban environmental attributes, presented at the 1st Session of the Doctoral Seminar on the Irregular Quarters of the Mediterranean, organized by the French Ministry of Education and the French Center for Documentation and Juridistical Studies (CEDEJ), Fayoum, Egypt, December 2000   
  • Demographic analysis using spectral mixture modeling of remote imagery for urban areas : a case study of Cairo, Egypt, with John Weeks, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, USA, April 2000   
  • The Environmental context of reproduction in rural Menoufia, Egypt, with John R. Weeks, Saad Gadalla and Allan G. Hill, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, USA, April 2000   
  • Measuring the environmental context of urban fertility in Arab countries : a "Top-Down" approach to fertility in Cairo, Egypt, with John R. Weeks, Saad Gadalla and Allan G. Hill, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, USA, March 2000   
  • An Investigation into GIS support for flood risk assessment and a design of Flood Management and Risk Assessment System (FMRAS), University of Manchester (Formerly UMIST), UK, 1998- Degree in Computation (GIS and Software Engineering)   
  • Using GIS as an educational tool for military academy students, Proceedings of the 17th Annual ESRI User Conference, San Diego, USA, June 4-9, 1997   
  • The Role of modern techniques and computer based systems in the urban planning process of Arab cities : a case sudy of Cairo city, Egypt, with Maged Hanna, Proceedings of the 36th Scientific Week, Syria, December 1995   
  • Using remote sensing and GIS techniques in the conservation of historical environments : a case study of Luxor city, Egypt, with Ahmed Rashed, oral presentation, Proceedings of the International Environmental Symposium, Emirates University, United Arab of Emirates, December 1994   

 

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